All about AFV and related military model making.
From September 2006:
History:
The KV-1 was a response to a 1939 specification for a heavy breakthrough tank armed with a 76.2mm cannon and armor capable of resisting anti-tank weapons up to the same caliber. The basis of the design was the [...]
Another from 2006:
History
Britain may have been the country that invented the armored fighting vehicle known popularly as the “tank,” but after the First World War, the British Army fell behind the rest of the world in the development [...]
From January 2006:
History:
Considered the best heavy anti-tank AFV produced during the Second World War, the SdKfz 173 Jagdpanther designed to overcome the limitations of the earlier Nashorn and Ferdinand anti-tank vehicles. Based on the [...]
Here's the latest update on the Batus Chieftain I started some time ago. Checking the underside, I always paint on the date the basic build (before painting) was completed, I found that this was done sometime back in '99! I guess I've [...]
Anybody who ever does armor, no matter what level of intensity, is sooner or later going to confront doing a Tiger (the ugliest tank ever created, IMO). This is mine from the summer of 2006:
History:
Despite the decision to mass produce [...]
Greetings to all forum members.
On this occasion I wanted to show you a project that I quickly realized in the last weeks.
Going through my boxes, I found an old Italeri kit: the M8 "Greyhound" armored vehicle. It is a kit that [...]
Hi guys,
Another IDF M-113 version. this time it's the excellent M-163 kit by Academy in 1/35+ Legend "Machbet" conversion kit.
"Machbet" in Hebrew means: racket.
Have a great weekend!
Tamiya 1/48 Sherman Firefly IC
Since the first two armor articles have been well-received, here's another from back in 2006: the Tamiya Sherman Firefly IC.
The British and Commonwealth forces first received the M-4 medium tank in 1942,in [...]
Since the Sherman was so popular, here's another armor review from a few years back.
After the war, German tank expert Hasso von Manteuffel told Basil Liddell-Hart that, "Tanks must be fast. That, I would say, is the most important [...]
A review from 2006.
The Original "Black Panthers":
Much is made in military history about how the Sherman tank was outclassed by its opponents, with the unstated message being it was a second-rate armored vehicle which only ended [...]
